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Monday, June 9, 2008
The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
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rior claims it. For some reason
- it's unclear exactly what - the
chubby, clumsy noodle-seller Po is
thought to be the dragon warrior.
Hilarity ensues.
Through the course of Po's rig-
orous training to become a kung
fu master - in the couple of days
before Tai Lung swings by and
destroys the valley - the movie
finds its mark. More than just
jokes about Po being fat (though
there are some of those, too), the power" plotline ripped directly Panda" has so much else going for
bulk of the humor comes from the from "Star Wars." Not only is it an it that this type of predictable plot
awkward interactions between Po obnoxiously lazy mode of execu- twist is unfortunate - not least
and his comrades, many of which tion for the film, it also adds an because it brings boredom to an
seem all too genuine. We can iden- unnecessary, cringe-inducing otherwise fun film.
tify with Po being the aspect of cheesy There is so much in the film that
odd one out, a guy ,morality to a is quirky and refreshing: the exot-
who has big kung fu film that would it setting, the wonderfully playful
dreams but a bigger have been score and Black's lovably sarcastic
body that stands in just fine take on Po. Yet it insists on taking
the way of realizing without the film the way of familiar family
them. it. Obvi- fun rather than innovative, genre
There is another side to ously the re-defining originality. That's
the story: the "master train- plot has to have going to mean dividends at the box
ing a great student, who then somewhere to office, of course, but it's also a huge
becomes evil and tries to take go, but "Kung Fu waste of a promising concept.
WEEZER
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ly proggy alt-rocker "Automat-
ic" and is more successful.
Though it isn't a return to
form in the truest sense, this is,
with respect to the disastrous
Make Believe, a decisive tri-
umph.When our musicalheroes
hit rock bottom, we must cut
them a little slack as they try to
claw their way back to respect-
ability. From that standpoint,
this is a welcome comeback.
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